This is an interesting description. It’s very sweeping though this hasn’t been my experience at all. It’s written as if it’s universal but it’s not right? And this isn’t part of design thinking methodology. It’s like UX and Agile right? You can say you’re doing Lean UX or whatever but once you put it into a software development cycle it’s tough to maintain the methodology’s integrity.
Design thinking by definition is a methodology that emphasizes iterative design so there are multiple cycles of design for maturity. The fact that people practice it inaccurately; not sure if that’s the fault of the methodology or the abusers of it.